The Christa McAuliffe Center
Fellowship Winners
Virginia
John Edward Hermsmeier
Tandem School
Route 19, Box 107
Charlottesville, VA 22902
"The Tandem Center for the Environment" will establish a
program in applied environmental education which will
serve as a model for the community and will be used
by other area schools. (1990)
Patricia Boise Kemp
Woodbridge High School
3001 Old Bridge Road
Woodbridge, VA 22192
pkemp@pen.k12.va.us
The project "Utilizing Graphing Calculators in the Algebra
Classroom-Empowering Teachers with the Tools and Techniques"
received a donation of TI-82 overhead graphing calculators to
20 middle schools and high schools in the Woodbridge, VA school
district and a 1 week summer institute for an Algebra I teacher
from each of the middle schools and high schools. The program
will address the need for integrating graphing technology into
mathematics education at the earliest stage of the secondary
level in the Woodbridge school district. (1994)
Catherine R. Ney
Margaret Beeks Elementary School
801 Crestwood Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
cney@pen.k12.va.us
The UNITES
(Using Novels for Interdisciplinary Technology Education and
Science) project uses children's fictional literature as a lead-in
to problem solving activities that make science, math, and
technology connections across the elementary curriculum.
Through the use of year-long theme modules (construction,
communications, connections, communities, exploration, and
survival) kindergarten through fifth graders learn to use an
inquiry process to generate solutions to real-life problems.
(1994)
Brion George Patterson
Rappahannock County HS
Route 211, Box 295
Sperryville, VA 22740
bpatters@mwc.vak12ed.edu
The"Breakthrough Summer" project is a teacher inservice
and student mentoring program to develop computer
informational skills that will prepare them to conduct a
summer program. Equipment and supplies will also be
purchased. (1991)
Pamela B. Green Peterson
Director of Educational Outreach
Challenger Center for Space Science Education
1055 North Fairfax St., Suite 100
Alexandria, VA 22314
pampeter@aol.com
Presenter 1995 Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Institute
"Storytime: An Oral Literature Approach to Improving T.E.A.M.S.
Test Scores" was a reading research project based on improving
test scores for third and fifth grade students by including
"storytime" as a specific part of the instructional day. The
main premise of the project was to show that students who are read
aloud to on a daily basis score significantly higher in the
standardized Texas achievement test given to third and fifth grade
students. Six schools, thirty teachers and 700 students participated
in the study. Students who were read aloud to as part of the curriculum
demonstrated a greater ability to achieve well in all areas of the
TEAMS objectives. It was determined from the results that storytime
should be an integral part of the instructional model. (1988)
Shirley Woodall
Virginia Tech College of Ed.
E. Eggleston Hall
Blacksburg, VA
Project deals with Elementary Guidance and Counseling
Programs. (Basis of book by Martin Gerstein, "The Best
for Our Kids") (1987)
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